Prison Reform Trust

PRT Associate Sarah Beresford has written a blog explaining some recent adaptations to the Child Impact Assessment resources.

You can read the full blog here ⬇️

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Our guest preacher this morning was Edward Smyth from @prtuk.bsky.social. Thank you Edward!

PRT comment: Independent review of prison capacity | Prison Reform Trust This report must be a wake-up call. We cannot afford to indulge in the fantasy that building more prisons will solve this crisis — history shows it won’t.

Dame Anne Owers' report, out today, doesn’t pull any punches. It lays bare the systemic failures behind repeated prison capacity crises. We cannot afford to indulge in the fantasy that building more prisons will solve this crisis — history shows it won’t.
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Prison and probation performance continues to nose-dive MoJ statistics show full extent of prison and probation crises

Prison and probation performance continues to nose-dive
MoJ statistics show full extent of prison and probation crises
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Watchdog investigates cases of 175 people handed abolished indefinite jail terms Eight out of 12 cases sent to the Court of Appeal have resulted in controversial IPP and DPP jail terms being quashed, reduced or substituted

Miscarriage of justice watchdog investigates cases of 175 people handed abolished indefinite jail terms www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Judges reveal regret at handing out indefinite jail terms and call for end to scandal Exclusive: ‘I have been a part of the system that is wrong. I feel that I ought to be part of the system to put it right,’ says one judge who backs proposals to help those trapped under the ‘unfair’ s...

Senior judges reveal regret at handing out ‘unfair’ indefinite jail terms and call for scandal to be ‘put right’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Groundhog Week for Youth Custody
@robroballen.bsky.social on the #UrgentNotification for Oakhill STC reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/07/grou...

Ofsted, CQC and @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social have issued an urgent notification to the Secretary of State for Justice about Oakhill Secure Training Centre, the second in less than four years. Read the full letter from Sir Martyn Oliver at assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688a40...

Prisons get ‘Minority Report’ AI profiling to avert violence As assaults on prison officers soar, they will be given AI tools to predict who is likely to attack and to scan confiscated phones for intelligence

Prison officers will use Minority Report-style technology to identify potentially violent inmates before they have launched an attack in a major expansion of artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system ⬇️

Four years on: Neurodiversity in prisons – HM Inspectorate of Prisons We use some essential cookies to make this service work.

Inspectors suggest that #neurodivergent #prisoners are still not identified early enough and support for them to achieve positive outcomes is variable.

"We must not confuse these reactive measures with a strategy to reduce violence at its source."

Read our full response to today's announcement that some trained staff in prisons will be issued with Tasers. prisonreformtrust.org.uk/prt-comment-...